Pearse Doherty: “There can be no increase in the price of petrol and diesel while the Dáil is in recess and Government ministers are away…”

You withdrew energy credits in the last Budget. We have the highest prices in Europe. Companies are to jack up their prices again. And what's your response, wait and see what we'll do in the Budget

We cannot control the cost of international fuel. But the one thing we can control is how much tax we apply.

Everybody knows what they're paying at the pumps at the minute, so it will push the price of diesel well above €2, it is simply unacceptable at a time when so many people are feeling the pinch and this cannot go ahead.

There is no way that Sinn Féin will stand by and allow that to happen when these fuels prices are increased.